It has come to news that Kevin Pearce, the Olympic snowboard hopeful and also Burton Global Team Rider has been seriously injured.

Reportedly he was injured when he was practicing at Park City Mountain Resort in Utah, when hitting his head on the wall of the half-pipe, on Thursday afternoon.

According to The New York Times, Pearce was taken to the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City, and underwent immediate surgery, to relieve fluid which had built up around his brain.

He was still coming off a concussion which he sustained earlier in the month, while he was competing in a qualifying run at the Copper Mountain Grand Prix

His agent Sue Izzo, his agent said there were no other details to be released. While his parents Simon and Pia are on their way to Salt Lake City from their home in Norwich to be with their son.

His website has been inundated with viewers almost making it impossible to view, and meanwhile on Twitter numerous tributes and well wishes are voicing their thoughts for the Snowboarding star.